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English Persecution of Catholics
Marys
Question: Forced from the throne of Scotland by her enemies and imprisoned
Answer: Mary Stuart
Question: Daughter of Henry VIII and half-sister of Elizabeth, who succeeded her
Answer: Mary Tudor
Question: Not Catholic, came to the throne with her Dutch husband in the "Glorious Revolution"
Answer: Mary, Daughter of James II
Question: Second wife of James II who fled to France in 1688
Answer: Mary of Modena
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Jameses and Charleses
Question: Succeeded the childless Queen Elizabeth and becomes James I of England
Answer: James VI of Scotland
Question: Killed by order of Oliver Cromwell
Answer: Charles I
Question: Returned from exile to claim English throne; became Catholic
Answer: Charles II
Question: Last Catholic King of England
Answer: James II
Question: Used to be James VI
Answer: James I
Elizabeth's Persecution
Question: What led Queen Elizabeth to persecute the Catholics of England?
Answer: The Pope had excommunicated her, and so she looked at Catholics as traitors
Question: Why were Catholic bishops imprisoned under Elizabeth?
Answer: They refused to take the oath that she required
Question: What city did Catholics form a seminary in the Spanish Low Countries? (Later it was moved to Reims)
Answer: Douay
Question: What did priests who returned to England undergo?
Answer: torture and martyerdom
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Miscelaneous
Question: War between the supporters of King Charles I and the supporters of Parliament, which was dominated by the Puritans
Answer: English Civil War
Question: Why did Mary Queen of Scots think she could depend on the support and sympathy of the French people?
Answer: She was the widow of Francis II of France
Question: What was a conspiracy by Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament by placing barrels of gunpowder in the cellar?
Answer: Gunpowder plot
Question: During what event did the William, the ruler of Holland, come to England to assume the throne of James II? (He was invited by leaders of Whigs and Tories)
Answer: the "Glorious Revolution"
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